The ZPL (Zoom Player Play List) Format
Introduction:
A lot of applications seem to favor XML as a file format for their playlist. Zoom Player doesn't. The reason? XML is very slow to parse and you don't really need its complexity for playlists.
The Format:
Zoom Player's ZPL Play List format is very simple. It consist of text tags, each on it's own line (to make parsing faster). Each file entry ends with a special break tag. Zoom Player's play list can be in unicode text files in order to support NON-English unicode file names.
The Tags:
| AC | Active media File Name/URL, the last file to have been played when the list was saved. This is a global entry and should only exist once in a play list (optional). |
| NM | The media file name/URL. |
| ST | The media source type (e.g. SHOUTcast URL). |
| DR | The media's duration in seconds (optional). |
| TT | The media's title/description (TAG, optional). |
| TG | The media's genre (TAG, optional). |
| TR | The media's track number (TAG, optional). |
| TL | The media's language (TAG, optional). |
| TA | The media's artist name (TAG, optional). |
| TB | The media's album name (TAG, optional). |
| TY | The media's production year (TAG, optional). |
| TH | The media's author name (TAG, optional). |
| TE | The media's encoder (TAG, optional). |
| TC | The media's comment (TAG, optional). |
| TU | The media's URL (TAG, optional). |
| TO | The media's copyright (TAG, optional). |
| FD | Used to force a duration (in seconds) on a file. Useful for image slideshows (optional). |
| FT | File Type, set to "6" to treat the file name as a web page URL. |
| RN | If specified, the playlist will be sorted randomly (optional). |
| SR | If specified, the playlist will be sorted: SR=0 : Sort by Name SR=1 : Sort by File Type (extension) SR=2 : Sort by Date SR=3 : Sort by Size SR=4 : Sort by Folder (path) SR=5 : Sort by Duration (media length) SR=6 : Sort Randomly (same as RN tag) |
| SA | Erase the playlist file after reading it (use with care!) |
| BR! | End of file entry. Each file entry should end with this tag. |
Example:
AC=myvideo.avi
NM=welcome.jpg
FD=5
BR!
NM=1.avi
TT=The first video!
BR!
NM=2.avi
DR=60
BR!
NM=myvideo.avi
BR!
NM=4.avi
BR!